Saturday Farm - Netflix

Series takes a look Daylesford an organic, working farm with a cooking
school producing and celebrating the best in season. It is located on
two thousand acres of glorious Cotswolds countryside where Gloucester
cattle, Bronze turkeys, five breeds of sheep and Legbar hens live
alongside a flourishing market garden and an award-winning bakery,
butchery and creamery. Dick and James Strawbridge present the show.

Type: Documentary

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 60 minutes

Premier: 2013-04-20

Saturday Farm - South African farm attacks - Netflix

In attacks on South African farms, predominantly white farmers and black
farm workers are subjected to violent crime, including murder. Farm
attacks have been described as “frequent” in the post-Apartheid period,
and, although some analysts believe they may be linked to racial
animosity within South African society. The South African government,
and other analysts, as well as Afrikaner civil rights group Afriforum
maintain that farm attacks are part of a broader crime problem in South
Africa, and do not have a racial motivation. It also remains unclear if
white farmers are victims of violence at a higher rate than the general
population, with some research showing that black farm workers are the
victims of violent criminal attacks at a “far higher rate”, by criminal
intruders, than white farm workers. Statistics released in 2018 by the
South African government showed that while the number of attacks had
increased between 2012 and 2018, the number of murders on farms had
decreased, year-on-year during the period, and farming organisation
AgriSA reported that the murder rate on farms had declined to the lowest
level in 20 years, a third of the level in 1998. A November 2017
analysis by the BBC found that there is insufficient data to estimate a
murder rate for South African farmers. Between 1994 and March 2012,
there had been 361,015 murders in all of South Africa and between 1990
and March 2012, there had been an estimated 1,544 murders on South
African farms of which 208 of the victims were Black. The data for farm
attacks is self-reported to a commercial farmer's organisation,
Transvaal Agricultural Union. The last government analysis of farm
attack victims by race was conducted in 2001. In 2001, the year with the
highest number of attacks, the police’s Crime Information Analysis
Centre stated that of the 1,398 people attacked on farms, 61.6% were
white, 33.3% were black, 4.4% were Asian and 0.7% were listed as
“other”, with murders on farms in 2007 accounting for 0.6% of the
national total. Racial statistics around crime are no longer collected
by the South African government. In January 2015, AfriForum reported
that there had been an increase in farm attacks and murders in the
previous five years. White farmers have long complained they are at risk
of rising violent crime and that they are ignored by the South African
government. The physical isolation of farms, and the perception that
farmers have cash (for the payment of wages) and weapons onsite have
been described by police as a possible motivation for criminal attacks
on farms. In March 2010, the ruling African National Congress defended
the apartheid-era song “Kill the Boer (depending on the context, white
farmer or Afrikaner)” after a regional high court ruled it as hate
speech, after it was sung by then ANC Youth League wing leader Julius
Malema. The ANC promised to stop singing the song in November 2012.
Critics say a movement to take in white farmers in Australia is
connected to the far right, with supporters who have long purported that
there is a “white genocide” taking place in South Africa.

Saturday Farm - Prevention - Netflix

While the police are supposed to regularly visit commercial farms to
ensure security, they say they cannot provide effective protection due
to the wide areas that need to be covered and a lack of funding. The
protection gap has been filled by 'Farmwatch' groups, which link
together by radio nearby farmers who can provide mutual assistance,
local Commando volunteers, and private security companies. These forces
are more likely to be able to respond rapidly to security alarms than
the widely distributed police stations. The particular mix of groups
that operate varies by area, with border zones continuing a strong
history of Commando volunteers, while wealthier farmers are more likely
to employ private security firms. The police and these groups are linked
together as part of the Rural Protection Plan, created in 1997 by
President Nelson Mandela. In 2003 the government began disbanding
commando units, saying they had been “part of the apartheid state's
security apparatus”. The disbandment of the Commandos has been cited as
a factor in the escalation of farm attacks.